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Show 62. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN BFFAIRS. allottees on what is known as Schedule A, whose lands, selected and occupied prior to the official survey, do not conform to that survey. Their allotments arc now being adjusted to the government surveys, and a schedule showing those which have been perfected will be for-warded for departmental approval at an early date. Flathead, Montana.-The surplus lands here will be opened to settlement under the act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 302), as amended by the fifteenth section of the ac$ of May 29,1908 (35 Stat. L., 448). Approximately 1,000,000 acres will be subject to entry under the homestead, mineral and town-site laws. On June 20, 1908, the departnlent approved a schedule of 2,378 allotments to the Indians of this reservation and directed the Com-missioner of the General Land Office to issue patents. Schedules have also been approved by the department reserving the falls of the Pend d'oreille River McDonald and St. Maries lakes and the Camas Hot Springs for thekenefit of the Indians, besides certain lands for agency, school, biological station, religious, cemetery and timber pur-poses. A commission consisting of Francis X. Salzman, John Matt, Angus McDonald, jr.,W. Filmore Hubbard, and Andrew Logan, are now engaged in inspecting, classifying and appraising the lands of the reservation; they will finish their work on November 7. Fort Berthold, North Dakota.-Under the act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1042), a special allotting agent has been engaged in making additional allotments to the Indians on this reservation. He has made and corrected 190 allotments, and estimates that it. mill require a year to finish the work. Fort Hall, Idaho.-It is my intention to make allotments on this reservation as soon as practicable, under the provisions of the agree-ment dated May 14,1880, as approved by the act of February 23,1889 (25 Stat. L., 687), and the act of February 8,1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), as amended by the act of February 28,1891 (26 Stat. L., 794). There will be, approximately, 60,000 acres under the irrigation project. sub-ject to allotment to the Indians. It will be necessary to procure additional IegiSlation before the surplus lands can be opened to settle-ment. Fort Peck, Montana.-This reservation embraces 1,776,000 acres. The act of May 30, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 558), authorizes the opening of the surplus lands to settlement after irrigable and mineral lands and allotments to Indians have been reserved. A. F. Dunnington, topographer of the Geological Survey, has been temporarily trans-ferred to the General Land Office, and is now making a survey of the reservation and a geological examination of the land with reference to its mineral value. A reconnaissance survey has been made by the Reclamation Service, with a view to developing an irrigation system to cover the allotted lands. This, however, is dependent upon procur- |